An email I sent myself, probably after a frustrating exchange with a teacher.

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I have often observes that the understanding and bellow masses are 
mentally incapable of perceiving creavity, or the possibility that 
something could exist or be created of necessity that does not exist 
today. Two discussions have made this starkingly clear, education and 
politics. When I question the reasonability of either the democracy or 
the validity of the united states' education system, the discussor 
faces me with an astoundingly limited answer. They will lecture me on 
dictatorship, or the even rote learning state of education in Japan. 
While agreeing that both are intrinsically flawed, they end on the 
notion that "it's bad, but it's all we got." This exemplifies their 
inability to think creatively and is one of the reasons why human 
creativity is languishing, because this is the state of mind in the 
majority, and thus, our leaders have no reason to change it.